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FlyingNunFarm said:
@apryl29 so cute! Hoping for 2 girls for you. As for the sexing of the orps— a agree that the 2 on the left look like boys— but I had seen a video about sexing orps by tail. Supposedly the boys get tails first. So a boy would have a tail like the lavender on the right....

Can’t they all just hatch with a little sign or appropriate colored ribbon! LOL
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My lav orps were easiest to tell if there were many hatched together. My last 2 hatched, I swore was a male/female pair. I lost the girl early to a crop issue and the other took about 18-20 weeks to prove to me that she was a female! :D

apryl29 said:
My giant human and her dance team... This video is from a few months ago and is the routine that won nationals, but it wasn't as clean. My kid is on the back right.. she trips over some tape of the floor at one point. I have another video, but they were missing a dancer and it was even earlier on so they were very out of sync. They have a video from nationals that I'll probably buy after I get paid.
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Cool!! I love that stuff. That little tiny girl with the long dark hair is adorable! What’s the age range of the group? And the boy isn’t bad! :)


Anansi said:
It would be nice if Gurtrude would decide if she's going to molt or not. Right now she's getting feathers in, but is still trying to lay eggs, which isn't working to well. How much extra calcium do I need to give her so she will have eggs with shells when she does lay. She's only had 2 that have not broken out of the last 8 or so, and most of the rest have been a surprise to her, which she then eats because they break on impact and are never in the nest box. She actually lashed one on DH's chair, no shell, and it broke immediately. I didn't realize she had laid it , say down next to her, and ended up with egg on my backside. DH will never know about the egg in his chair, he doesnt like her to be on the arm of it, let alone the seat, lol. What he doesn't know won't hurt. I have tums with 1000 mg calcium, and it mixes well with baby food, so I can get it in her, I just need to know how much. Shes also being finicky about eating her oyster shell, apparently because she doesn't know if she's molting or not.

Oh the fun of the indoor chicken. Kinda makes me wonder if other chickens get the same issues when they molt, but it doesn't get noticed because they're outdoors and the eggs are easier to miss or have been completely devoured before they can be noticed. I've noticed she only eats the ones that are broken, she doesn't break them open.
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I’ve never had trouble with soft eggs so I can’t help with the calcium amounts, but had to laugh at the egg in the chair :lau
 
Redhead Rae said:
I worked outside for almost 2.5 hours this evening. I divided one of our broody pens in half so I could move my broody Cornish over and give her incubator hatched chicks. Her last egg was also bad so she had no more eggs. So I got her set up in her box. Which I got cleaned out and stuffed with fresh hay and I gave her the 6 incubator babies that hatched last week. I gave her the puffy cheeked oops chick first because that baby isn’t integral to my breeding programs. When she first saw the chick she puffed up and pecked at it with a WTT (what the tater) look on her face and pecked it a few times. She didn’t get it until I shoved the chick under her a few times and held her wings down until the chick stayed under neath her. She then calmed down and got a startled, but happy demeanor as if to say “OOhhhh, this is what I’ve been wanting!” And started making happy broody noises. I then gave her the rest of the chicks. It took a few times of shoving the chicks back under her for them to get the picture, but they eventually settled down and accepted her as Mommy.
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We also have had some thunderstorms roll past, but they haven’t really hit us. We are hoping they don’t. Our neighbor cut our hay today. We did get a spectacular double rainbow though!
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What a great day!
 
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Good morning hope y'all have a fantastic day:celebrate
 
WVduckchick said:
My lav orps were easiest to tell if there were many hatched together. My last 2 hatched, I swore was a male/female pair. I lost the girl early to a crop issue and the other took about 18-20 weeks to prove to me that she was a female! :D



Cool!! I love that stuff. That little tiny girl with the long dark hair is adorable! What’s the age range of the group? And the boy isn’t bad! :)




I’ve never had trouble with soft eggs so I can’t help with the calcium amounts, but had to laugh at the egg in the chair :lau
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That's the problem we had w/ Steve... We all thought he was a girl until he was 19 weeks and started acting like a boy... I don't want to accidentally keep a boy and get rid of my girls. Loki's acting like she's done w/ the babies already. Last night she was trying to get up on the roost, but I locked her in w the babies last night. Tonight I need to block in the bottom of the coop from the back and dismantle the baby cage so they can be free w/ everyone else. I'm hoping she'll stick around w/ them and take them outside and teach them how to chicken w/ the big ones.
How long should I wait until I let them out to range w the others? They'll be a month old about the 9th.

I love it too... It's way more impressive when you can hear the shoes hit, but they dub the music over to cover the audience sounds and then you can't hear the shoes. The youngest ones here are 7 (3rd and 5th ones from the left) and the oldest are the 2 on the right who are now 15.
Do you mean the one circled in red? I was talking to her mom last night.. This is just her 2nd year doing competition and she won a national title for her solo! She has some major talent. The boy child is my friend's son. He's the only boy on the team and one of the only boys at the studio. He has some major skill too. Fun fact, he's partially deaf & wears hearing aids. You wouldn't know it by the way he dances.
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Well, it turns out my Dark Cornish hen is a bad mommy.

I went out to check on her and the chicks this morning. 4 of the chicks had found a hole in the netting between the sides and had gone over to the other hen and the DC hen was still on the nest with two babies clamped tightly underneath her. She was pecking them if they came out. I pulled her off the nest and brought the babies outside. Moved the 4 babies back over to her and got the stuff I needed to repair the netting. Before I could do the repair, one of the older chicks from the buff I had next to the DC hen made its way through the hole and the DC hen viciously attacked the chick. The chick was alright, but scared. As I was repairing the hole. I watched the DC hen scratching and trying to show the chicks how to forage. However, if the chicks got in front of her when they looked at what she was scratching, she would peck them and pick them up by the scruff and throw them to the side. She also stepped on the babies and wouldn't get off them when they screamed because she was hurting them. The biggest tell to me, was the chicks kept balling up in the corner to stay out of her way and keep warm. I put the DC hen in with the other DCs (I need to put together a broody breaker for her) and gave the chicks to the hen I gave 4 babies to last week. She took them gladly! Molly really wanted them, but she already has 7 chicks that are 3 and 4 weeks older than these babies. Well, now I have a place to put my broody Dominique/Buff until more eggs hatch.....
 

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